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The Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) presents the 2021 Distinguished Public Lecture Series.
This lecture will discuss some of the problems that the Anthropocene hypothesis—the proposition that humans are now a geological force affecting the chronology of the geobiological history of the whole planet—poses for humanists when they examine recent human pasts while trying to take that perspective on board. The lecture will also offer some thoughts on conceptualizing historical time in that context. Jay Bernstein will serve as respondent.Â
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Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College
Chakrabarty’s most recent book is The Climate of History in a Planetary Age (in press, University of Chicago). Other recent books include The Crises of Civilization: Exploring Global and Planetary Histories (Delhi: OUP, 2018) and, with Ranajit Dasgupta, Some Aspects of Labour History of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century: Two Views (Delhi: OUP, 2018). He is also the co-editor, along with Henning Trüper and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, of Historical Teleologies in the Modern World (Bloomsbury, 2015).
Jay Bernstein is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. Philosophy, for him, means interrogating the foundations of our life together, how we make sense of the world, and how we fail. Philosophy profiles the human as upright and as failing, as knowing and as blinded, as world-making and as suffering, as flourishing and as dying; and how those competing images are bound together in our morals, politics, art, and ordinary life.
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